The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken: A Search for Food and Family
Author | : Laura Schenone |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2008-10-17 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780393075663 |
ISBN-13 | : 0393075664 |
Rating | : 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "Dazzles like the harbor of Portofino." —Adriana Trigiani Laura Schenone's original goal was simple enough: to find her great-grandmother's recipe for ravioli. But things get more complicated as she reunites with relatives and digs up buried family stories. Taking readers from New Jersey's industrial wastelands and fast-paced suburbs to the coast of Liguria—homeland of her ancestors and of ravioli—The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken is a story of the comedies and foibles of family life, of love and loss, of old homes and new, and of the mysteries of pasta, rolled on a pin into a perfect circle of gossamer dough.